Bill Molloy

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Bill Molloy
Personal information
Full name William George Molloy
Date of birth (1929-08-28)28 August 1929
Place of birth Coventry, England
Date of death 10 January 2020(2020-01-10) (aged 90)
Place of death Coventry, England
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Position(s)
Inside left
Youth career
1945–19?? Coventry City
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1949–1950 Southampton 1 (0)
1950 Lockheed (Leamington)
1950–1952 Newport County 3 (0)
1952 Millwall 0 (0)
1952–1953 Rugby Town
1953–1954 Snowdown Colliery Welfare
1954–1955 Canterbury City
1955–1956 Dover
1956–1957 Nuneaton Borough
1957–19?? Bedworth United
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

William George Molloy (28 August 1929 – 10 January 2020) was an English former professional

the Football League for Southampton and Newport County between 1949 and 1951.[1]

Football career

Molloy was born in Coventry and played football as a youth with St. Osburg's Youth Club before joining Coventry City as a trainee in March 1945. Although Coventry City offered him a professional contract, he turned this down to join the Army.[2]

His military career took him to Ludgershall in Wiltshire where he was spotted by a scout from Southampton. In 1949, he was invited to The Dell for a trial as a result of which he was offered a professional contract, which this time he accepted. He made his reserve-team debut on 21 September 1949, scoring against Ipswich Town.[3] Two "stylish" goals in a reserve match against Brighton & Hove Albion two weeks later earned him a call-up for the first team.[2]

His only first-team appearance came on 22 October 1949 when he took the place of

inside-left against Blackburn Rovers. Although he started the move that led to the opening goal from Ted Bates in a 3–1 victory,[4] for much of the rest of the game he was lacking pace and saw little of the ball.[2] Molloy returned to the reserves, for whom he made 19 appearances, scoring six goals.[3]

In the summer of 1950, he was transfer listed and attracted interest from

the Football League with Newport County for whom he played three league matches in the 1950–51 season,[5] and was briefly on the books of Millwall in 1952 before dropping down to non-League football.[2]

After a season with Rugby Town in the Birmingham Combination, he moved to Kent where he played for Snowdown Colliery Welfare in the Kent League for a season, followed by a season each at Canterbury City and Dover. In 1956, he returned to the Midlands to join Nuneaton Borough of the Birmingham & District League before winding up his football career at Bedworth United.[2]

Later career

Outside football, he was a painter and decorator by trade working in the Coventry area until he retired.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Bill Molloy". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  2. ^
    ISBN 0-9534474-3-X
    .
  3. ^ a b In That Number – A post-war chronicle of Southampton FC. pp. 434–435.
  4. ^ In That Number – A post-war chronicle of Southampton FC. p. 15.
  5. ISBN 0-907574-08-4
    .

External links
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